Propositions tackle rent control, app-based drivers
Editor’s note: This is the third entry in a series that will break down the California Propositions going to voters in the Nov. 3 election. To read the first entry click here, and to read the second entry click here.
California voters will make a...
Longtime Pajaronian employee retires
Daryl Nelson, who started his job in the composing room at the Register-Pajaronian in September 1972, retired Wednesday, capping off a nearly half-century career in the newspaper industry that included a seven-year stint at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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La Fondita: enchiladas
Having our offices in downtown Watsonville has been a delight for me come lunchtime. So many great restaurants. So little time—and money. I’ve started to...
Watsonville parents gather hundreds of signatures for street safety improvements
WATSONVILLE—Concerned parents of students attending schools in downtown Watsonville are demanding that the City make drastic pedestrian safety improvements.
Maura Carrasco Leonor, a mother of a 14-year-old at Ceiba College Prep Academy, has for the last month helped circulate a petition that calls for the...
Mi Casa celebrates Day of the Dead
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—The annual Mi Casa es Tu Casa exhibit opened Wednesday at Pajaro Valley Arts on Sudden Street.
The show is inspired by Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a traditional holiday in Mexico that celebrates ancestors and others who have died....
Prolific local columnist, Steve Bankhead, dies
WATSONVILLE—Stephen Gerald Bankhead was a longtime Watsonville resident who made learning about Pajaro Valley’s history—and relaying it to the community—his passion in the latter part of his life.
Most recently, he wrote the Pajaro Valley Past column for The Pajaronian, taking it over from historian...
Watsonville nurses rally against ICU closure
Several dozen Watsonville Community Hospital nurses and staff warned Wednesday that closing the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit—an idea they said officials have floated amid...
